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Zim Zum live with TPCS. Photo by Gretchen.

Timothy Michael Linton (born June 25, 1969), better known by his stage name Zim Zum, is a professional, multi platinum musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist of industrial metal band Marilyn Manson before moving on to Pleistoscene in 2002, and The Pop Culture Suicides in 2005.

Stage name

Zim Zum was the first member of Marilyn Manson whose stage name was not deviated from the female celebrity/serial killer format. It is derived from Jewish mystical text. "Tzim-Tzum," a Hebrew word meaning "contraction" or "constriction," is a space created by God which He would not inhabit.

Career

Marilyn Manson

He joined the band Marilyn Manson, after Daisy Berkowitz left the band due to antagonism from the other members, particularly Manson. The guitars on the Antichrist Superstar album were recorded by Daisy Berkowitz and Zim Zum (who played live guitar on "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" for the album) was invited as a live guitar player. After the Dead to the World Tour ended, he wrote on 10 tracks and recorded (guitar and even bass/on one track) on all of the tracks from Mechanical Animals. He departed to pursue solo interests before the albums release - although Manson himself has claimed he was fired for not attending band practice. The latter of the two reasons is perhaps dubious as Manson has been known to abash and take credit for contributions by band members who have departed - as well as Zim Zum - notably Daisy Berkowitz, Twiggy Ramirez and John 5. Zum was replaced by the latter. "Mechanical Animals" is still the highest charting, highest selling MM albums to date.

His first writing in Manson can be heard on "The Suck for your Solution" on the soundtrack to Howard Sterns Private Parts and for this song he gets the platinum.

Zim Zum first show with Manson, opening for NIN at Nothing Night in New York was only the 2nd time he had ever played live.

After Manson, from Pleistoscene to The Pop Culture Suicides

After leaving Marilyn Manson, Zim Zum focus was to apply what he did to a lot of different kinds of music. So, the unprecedented variety if high profile projects and performances (Cher - "Crimson and Clover", Korn - "Got the life Remix" with Producer Josh Abraham, an appearance in Jane's Addictions "Three Days" concert film and a now notorious VH1's Behind the Music) that followed his resignation from Manson, was no accident.

In 2000 Bizarre Magazine's Bizarre Lives feature Guitar One magazine features Zim Zum as one of the most influential guitar players of the last 4 decades.

A year later, Zim Zum completely isolates himself for more than a year, cutting off all ties to the outside world. No tv, no radio, no friends, during that “self-imposed exile” he spent 14 hours a day writing and recording over 100 songs.

In 2002 makes its debut Pleistoscene, the new Zim Zum musical project. The site www.pleistoscene.com will be visited by more than 500.000 fans. Today, Zim talks about Pleistoscene as his “own orchestra”.

In 2003 two songs by Pleistoscene are released on the net. They are “Who will save us now?” e “Ordinary Life”. “Sonic Monk Magazine” says that “"Zim is a highly esteemed mega studio rock star of the highest order".

2004: Zim appears in Jane's Addictions "Three Days" concert film.

And in the same year, Zim Zum gives birth to a new musical project, The Pop Culture Suicides, a self proclaimed Rock n Roll opera, that is now his main musical project (although the project Pleistoscene is still fully functional ( www.myspace.com/pleistoscene ), as well as his solo musical project ( http://www.myspace.com/zimzum ).

The Pop Culture Suicides clearly flirt with elements of Rock Opera, Orchestral pieces and Performance Art, and play by a completely unique set of rules, if any at all. Accepting and presenting nothing less than music as art and approaching each moment is if it were the last, they are loud and thunderous, quiet and introverted, fearless, optimistic and unapologetic, all at once.

In 2005 The Pop Culture Suicides released exclusively on myspace 4 songs: "To Have Lived and Died in the 21st Century", "The Art of The Bruise", "The Disillusioned Revolution" and "Whatever the Future Holds" and during the years the band released more songs and previews exclusively on their myspace profile (www.myspace.com/thepopculturesuicides ). During these years, The Pop Culture Suicides played live in some of the biggest clubs in Illinois, Ohio, Winsconsin, Iowa. Zim Zum is now working on their conceptual debut double-album that will be released as 4 eps.